I forgot how boring Ret Paladin was in Classic WoW

[Vraidin-stormrage]

Seal. Judgement. Seal. Repeat.

So fun. Lol

[Thediesel-sulfuras]

Boring AND bad. What a combo!

[Communism-netherwind]

Frostbolt, fireblast, frostbolt, frostbolt, frostbolt

[Staevius-lightbringer]

Go spelladin and you get to add consecration to that list.

[Thediesel-sulfuras]

Frostbolt, fireblast, frostbolt, frostbolt, frostbolt

Whoa slow down there. That rotation is too crazy. You should only be using Frostbolt.

[Kaeth-grobbulus]

Frost mage is boring but at least they’re useful

[Kayberz-whitemane]

Im convinced that fans of ret paladin gameplay only other gaming experience is runescape

[Communism-netherwind]

You guys remember when everyone was saying before classic released that all the classes would have so much more finesse and the classes were so much more fun and lively compared to retail…

A little questionable for sure

[Thugginlove-old-blanchy]

You get shatters, cone of cold. Frost nova. Don’t lie.

[Kaeth-grobbulus]

I cannot believe people actually thought that.

[Caxtren-area-52]

Imagine being a frost priest in raids. You have a 1 button rotation lol

[Communism-netherwind]

Yeah dungeons are a bit more fun but whenever you finish that big pre raid bis grind and gather all your fire pots and resist gear just to walk in and press 1 button over and over again (I can’t even use fire blast dammit because immunity).

It’s cool and all downing a raid boss but it’s bitter sweet, I still enjoy the rest of what the game has to offer though is why I still play

[Sokajoo-rattlegore]

If you’re unhappy with ret in classic try a hybrid healing/tanking spec. I’m 30/21/0. With blessing of sanctuary I can 100% solo a pack of 7-8 L55 mobs. I use consecration, ret aura, BoSanc, and I have a mithril spike on my shield.

I have more than enough holy abilities to heal raids and dungeons, and I have the defensive capabilities to easily gold farm places like Mara, and DM East. Waaaaay more fun this way than ret was for me (for pve that is.)

[Chocolateman-sulfuras]

The beastmode pvp once geared is worth it

[Ragefist-stalagg]

In a raid setting, literally hitting any button but frostbolt is an instant DPS loss. Not kidding, check some of the top mage raid parses. Frostbolt constitutes 100% of their damage.

[Theloras-herod]

The Spelladin - new Retribution meta for Classic

Courtesy of DexterBravo: Gear competetion - That T2 gear that every pally wants for PVP or RP, isn’t good for holy. But it is BIS (likely forever) for Spelladins. That’s 8 pieces of items that is Spelladin prio, which won’t be replaced in ZG, AQ, NAXX. That’s a lot of gear for happy warriors, casters, etc., that otherwise was wanted by the AP ret. Actually viable DPS most likely (none of us know how Classic will be tuned in the end). Much better than AP ret – more dps, more mana uptime…

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Righteous Fury Mechanics == OP Paladin Threat (1k+ TPS)

The tooltip for Righteous Fury specifies the following: Increases the threat generated by your Holy attacks by 60%. Lasts 30 min. In practice, however, Righteous Fury increases the threat of ALL spells in the Holy school, such that it affects the threat generated by blessings, heals, etc, which vastly improves the threat potential of Protection Paladins, as shown in the two videos linked below. A very notable property of Righteous Fury is that it uses the same Aura as Defensive Stance. SP…

break out of your comfort zone friend

[Neme-whitemane]

I highly recommend watching below youtube video. 2 weeks before WoW vanilla released, they entirely redid the paladin combat system. I played Paladin in vanilla-beta, and loved it. Basically you had crusader strike (spammable, low damage, increases holy damage taken… similar to Live Strat mobs) and holy strike (like heroic strike, with cooldown, all holy damage). It was interactive and fun.

Then they changed it to this boring crap system.

#nochange, bring back beta-vanilla ret paladin.

[Hollowchazz-westfall]

This is why im engineering, so i can throw bombs every minute to make gameplay more interesting.

Every minute is a chance for me to show off how big my dick is by pulling 3-4 mobs and bombing them.

Also get the addon Swingtimer, it makes it slightly less boring knowing when you will auto attack.

[Antorius-old-blanchy]

You forgot cleanse, freedom, bop, sacrifice, consecrete, and of course, hammer of GG.

Oh, you’re talking about a pve single target rotation? I’ll take seal, judge, seal over frostbolt, frostbolt, frostbolt

[Kaeth-grobbulus]

Yeah didn’t they say it was too much like Warrior so they changed it to a barely tested boring system?

I don’t even think anyone played a paladin on the old team. I cannot remember who it was, he had a murloc avatar and he actually made one because paladins were so freakin bad. the devs didn’t want to test it.